Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richelle Mead

I can't shut my brain off. It's like a hamster wheel." ~ Justin

Rita Mae Brown

He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.

Thomas Browne

As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine; methinks there be not impossibilities enough in Religion for an active faith.

Timothy Leary

Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.

Robert Harris

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

Robert Anton Wilson

Any model we make does not describe the universe it describes what our brains are capable of saying at this time.

Robert Anton Wilson

I regard belief as a form of brain damage.

Richard Ford

I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.

Stephen Fry

One of the most intensely unlikeable figures of the twentieth century, fanatical anti-Semite, enemy of labour unions and proud recipient of medals from Nazi Germany, where Hitler held him in veneration, Henry Ford was also an employer who paid his workers more than his competitors, an innovator who pioneered the assembly line and a visionary whose part in the creation of the twentieth century was so great that Aldous Huxley, in his Brave New World, prefigured a society whose calendar was divided into BF and AF-Before Ford and After Ford.

St. Jerome

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

Sonya Hartnett

It is scary, sometimes, Tomas admitted. But the scary bits are what make you brave.

Ruth Benedict

The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable, submissive and resentful of being pushed around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new ways.

Roger Penrose

It is hard to see how one could begin to develop a quantum-theoretical description of brain action when one might well have to regard the brain as "observing itself" all the time!

Roger Penrose

It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.

Tom Wolfe

No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech.

Tom Waits

I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.

Tom Waits

Bill Hicks - blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The brain abhors discrepancies.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.

Veronica Roth

Four: Be brave Tris. The first time is always the hardest.

Veronica Roth

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.

Veronica Roth

It must require bravery to be honest all the time.

Veronica Roth

It's easy to be brave when they're not my fears.

Veronica Roth

Being selfless is not that different from being brave. It is when you are selfless that you are the bravest.

Robert Fortune

The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.

Robert Frost

You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad.

Robert Frost

Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Find first peace within yourself. Don't eat too much. Keep your brain active. Love.

Sarah Wright

Everyone also needs to realize that business is not rocket science. Everything that you haven't done before, you don't know it because you haven't done it before. It's not brain surgery and you figure it out as you do it.

Sarah Kay

Sometimes I am puzzling over something for months and months and the poem gets created in small bursts and rewritten a hundred times, and chopped up and put back together, etc. Occasionally, though rarely, a poem just plops out of my head fully-formed. But always it is a blueprint of what my brain is trying to navigate at that moment.